How Is The Hiv Virus Spread

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HIV/AIDS Advocates Speak Out After Kenyan Cabinet Member Discusses Viability of Isolating People Living With HIV/AIDS to Control Spread of Virus

IRIN/ PlusNews reports on the recent statements a Kenyan cabinet member about isolating people living with HIV/AIDS as a means of controlling the spread of the virus and reactions by local and international HIV/AIDS advocates. On January 28,... Read more »

NYC Commission on HIV/AIDS Report Recommends Condom Distribution, Needle Exchange, HIV Testing to Slow Spread of Virus

The New York City Commission on HIV/AIDS on Monday released a draft report recommending increased condom distribution, the establishment of needle exchanges and routine HIV testing to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS in the city, the New York Times ... Read more »

California HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs to Focus on Training HIV-Positive People to Prevent Spreading Virus

California's HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, which in the past have focused on curbing high-risk behavior, are being "revamped" to train HIV-positive people not to spread the virus, the Los Angeles Times reports. The "new tactic" in HIV/AIDS... Read more »

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Virus: Spreading like Wildfire

My partner tested positive for HIV April 2003 and I test negative. On May 30, 2003 I tested positive. A month later I saw a Infectious Disease specialist and my numbers were good (CD4= 609 and Viral Load= 22,000).Three months later (October...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thanks for your question.Like CD4 cells counts, HIV viral loads also vary from day to day-- as much as a five-fold change can occur without any real medical significance. From this, you could see that one day's viral load of 25,000 could... Read more »

What ways can I spread shingles virus

I've recently got Shingles and on day 4 I had two doctors confirm it was shingles. Neither one prescribed meds because it is best to take them during the first 48 hours. So I've been taking Vitamin C,B,E and L-Lysine and etc. My question...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

This particular forum is exclusively for the discussion of the side effects of antiretroviral (HIV) therapy.... Read more »

HIV virus

can spread through the used rapid test strip, if some one can touch the used strip and put his finger in his/her ulcerated oral cavity(mouth),now what he will do?????...

Response from Joseph McGowan, M.D., F.A.C.P.

North Shore University Hospital

If it is your own test strip, you can't spread virus to yourself.If it is someone elses discarded test strip, once it is dried out it is no longer infectious.Also, in general, I would advise anyone not to put used medical devices in their... Read more »

HHV-8 without HIV virus

I have KS which seems to be spreading on my feet rather quickly, but I am HIV negative. Should I be treated differently than if I had AIDS? Should I be any less concerned about the seriousness of having KS and being HIV negative? And finally, my...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

It is indeed possible to have KS WITHOUT having HIV. Basically KS and AIDS are each caused by a virus; KS by the HHV-8 virus and AIDS by the HIV virus. Although the majority of gay men with KS carry both viruses and therefore have both KS and AIDS,... Read more »

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KNOWING SPREADING HIV AROUND

Posted by Jazzy1973, 5 Replies

wHY DO PEOPLE KEEP GOING AROUND SPREADING THIS TO EACH OTHER KNOWING U HAVE THIS?

wHY CAN'T SOME ONE FIND SOME ONE THAT HAS HIV TOO?

QUESTIONS I ASS BECAUSE I KNOW SOMEONE WHO GOES ON LINE AND MEET PEOPLE AND HAVE SEX WITH THEM& AFTER THEY GET... Read more »

a lot of HIV virus in the milk?

Posted by aspn, 3 Replies

I bought a carton of milk 3 days ago, i drank it this morning, and i found the milk carton has a lot of blood on the carton, I am afraid , will someone intentionally given the blood in the carton and i drank it? I was afraid that there is... Read more »

spread aids................ NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by daisey6205, 5 Replies

just a note to update you all.
it has been a hell of a long i have traveled in the last year and a half. i have come to realize that the best friends i have are the ones i have never even met... those here that continually pray for my safety and... Read more »

Why does HIV continue to spread?

Posted by Anonymous, 6 Replies

I saw a report on my local TV station that said that HIV continues to spread in American cities. Why aren't young people heeding the message and using condoms? Is unprotected sex worth a life time of being on toxic drugs? Read more »

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